tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post6067088046313269450..comments2017-09-26T09:45:20.024-07:00Comments on Nutfield Genealogy: Martin Luther King in BostonHeather Wilkinson Rojohttps://plus.google.com/112245637861337699720noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-63018745094918646592014-01-21T18:31:17.631-08:002014-01-21T18:31:17.631-08:00I met Martin Luther King, Sr. in Boston sometime, ...I met Martin Luther King, Sr. in Boston sometime, I&#39;m guessing, between 1965 and 1968. We students were doing a community project - cleaning up a South End park or proposed park, I think - and he was apparently involved in the same project on a national scale. He took the time to speak to all of us individually to thank us for taking part. I have good memories of this, not bittersweet, so I&#39;m pretty sure this was before his son&#39;s assassination or the other family tragedies to come. Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-38246300882854184552014-01-20T18:00:38.612-08:002014-01-20T18:00:38.612-08:00Thanks for your comments, Jeremy! So nice to hear ...Thanks for your comments, Jeremy! So nice to hear more about the BU connections to Dr. King.Heather Wilkinson Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-59749380384257759022014-01-20T11:57:04.673-08:002014-01-20T11:57:04.673-08:00Thanks for this bit of history on this special day...Thanks for this bit of history on this special day!Teresa Rusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03708680983175435084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-33780175818936748602014-01-20T06:49:24.365-08:002014-01-20T06:49:24.365-08:00Besides the sermons of Howard Thurman, B.U. Profes...Besides the sermons of Howard Thurman, B.U. Professor John Swomley (of the Fellowship of Reconciliation) was a major inspiration towards non-violence. Swomley later moved to Kansas City, where I knew him. And Swomley and my father, with other faculty and students at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, joined by similar professors and students from other area seminaries, spent the night of Martin Luther King&#39;s assassination going door to door to talk to people in a successful attempt to provide a peaceful alternative for the expression of outrage and sorrow that otherwise might have resulted in rioting.<br />- Jeremy Bangs<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com